Imari style cup and saucer with a tiger, New Hall Factory

An image of Cup and Saucer/Teacup. New Hall Porcelain Factory, Staffordshire. Bute shape cup with oval ring handle. Circular saucer with curved sides, standing on a footring. The exterior pf the cup is decorated with an Oriental landscape in which are a tree, a group of buildings, a bird perching in a tree branch, and a tiger lying down in front of a rock covered in daisy-like flowers. There is a gold band round the base and rim, inside which is a border of slanting leaves and pairs of berries with a narrow and a wider band above and below. The back of the handle is decorated with five stylized leaves of graduated size. The saucer is decorated with a different version of the design with the tiger lying down on the left below the tree, and with a matching border. Pattern 1214. Bone china, painted underglaze in blue, overglaze in pale apricot and red enamels, and gilded. Circa 1815-1820. Imari style.

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Cup and Saucer/Teacup. New Hall Porcelain Factory, Staffordshire. Bute shape cup with oval ring handle. Circular saucer with curved sides, standing on a footring. The exterior pf the cup is decorated with an Oriental landscape in which are a tree, a group of buildings, a bird perching in a tree branch, and a tiger lying down in front of a rock covered in daisy-like flowers. There is a gold band round the base and rim, inside which is a border of slanting leaves and pairs of berries with a narrow and a wider band above and below. The back of the handle is decorated with five stylized leaves of graduated size. The saucer is decorated with a different version of the design with the tiger lying down on the left below the tree, and with a matching border. Pattern 1214. Bone china, painted underglaze in blue, overglaze in pale apricot and red enamels, and gilded. Circa 1815-1820. Imari style.

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Accession Number: C.40 & A-2010
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 800 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 170.07kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2010:08:07 10:40:57

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